This is a notebook of projects I attempt with a Raspberry Pi or wearable technology

About me

In the photo I am in the blue blouse. It's taken on the famous little railway to Shimla. I'm a Code Club volunteer and love messing about with computing and particularly coding in Scratch. I want to get into 'maker' stuff using my Raspberry Pi but I'm a complete newbie. I am learning a bit about electronic making by going to Leeds Raspberry Jam once a month. I'm looking to do a robot project with the Raspberry Pi Zero in the future. I've just started an adventure to code wearable LEDs using an Adafruit Gemma. And I've been lucky to have been given a CodeBug so I'm learning to use that too!

Picamera detects banana thief!

Got the Picamera working again to detect a banana thief. I want to use it with the Pibrella and a motion sensor eventually so that I can detect the thief’s movement and sound a warning.

My picture of the screen isn’t too good. I needed someone else to be the banana thief really.

I used the same Python commands as previously. I love the way you can get it to capture and save a still photo as a jpeg. Unfortunately I can’t connect my Pi to the Internet yet so I cannot transfer the photos directly here but have to snap them with my phone. I expect I could put the Pi SD card into the PC but whether it would locate the jpegs I’m not sure. I haven’t got the Linux operating system anywhere except on my Pi.

Don’t forget to close down your camera properly at the end of your code. In Python use: